The Senate bill provides $6.65 billion to the U.S Department of Energy’s Office of Science, which stewards the nation's 17 national labs and supports basic science and energy research.

The amount includes $980 million for high-performance computing within the Office of Science, $205 million of which will go toward the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. That's about $42.5 million more than the facility received last year.

A total of $667 million will be put toward exascale computing activities, with $232 million specifically geared toward the delivery of at least one exascale computer by 2021.

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Clips from the Summit supercomputer installation at ORNL

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., who chairs the Senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, said he is proud of the bill, which directs more than $3 billion specifically to the Oak Ridge area's Department of Energy Activities.

“I would tell President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget that science, research and innovation is what made America first, and I recommend that he add science, research and innovation to his 'America First' agenda," Alexander said, referring to the president's budget request.

"This funding bill is a good first step to doing that – it prioritizes federal spending to keep America first in energy research and increases funding to develop the next generation of supercomputer," Alexander said.

A magnet reading "Energized" is seen on a machine during the installation of the new Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis, Knoxville News Sentinel)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's manufacturing demonstration facility would get $25 million to support the development of additive manufacturing processes, low-cost carbon fiber and other advanced manufacturing technologies.

ORNL's Center for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors would receive $30 million.

Keeping with previous proposals, the Senate bill provides $100 million more for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and $25 million more for Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) than the House proposed.

The Trump administration and the House have proposed hefty cuts to both agencies since 2017, and the Senate has continually pushed back.

EERE houses several ORNL research areas, including vehicle technology research, building technologies, advanced manufacturing, weatherization and biomass fuel research. Additionally, ORNL is part of at least 11 ARPA-E research projects.

Environmental cleanup activities at Y-12, the East Tennessee Technology Park and ORNL would receive $646 million in the Senate bill, about $7 million more than enacted 2018 levels and $581 million more than the president's 2019 budget request.

The bill proposes nearly $15 billion - the same as the House bill - for the National Nuclear Security Administration. Construction on the Uranium Processing Facility at Y-12 National Security complex would see $703 million in 2019.